steamingpile:How big is the dog and how big are you? The easiest way is to try the dominance method where you get near them and lie down on them until they quit trying to get up and submit. It is a dominance issue that will let a dog know who they are supposed to submit to instead of being a dick.

Absolutely. And you don't need to penetrate them when you mount them, but you should be naked, or nearly so, so the dog can smell your pheramones from your sex organs. Much of canine anxiety comes from new and different settings where they don't know the hierarchy. As pack animals, dogs depend on this information to know their role. Imagine showing up at a new job with an established hierarchy of labor and several layers of management but you don't know what your position is in the company. What are you supposed to do? Who to you take orders from? Who to you direct? Very stressful, huh? Same with a dog. They're social creatures but in the wild, they stay WITHIN their packs, rarely interacting with individuals from different packs. You need to show your animal where he fits in your pack.

That's where your scent becomes so important. Between our visual orientation and our centuries of perfume and bathing, we barely notice our own scents, but it's a powerful identifier for your dog. Placing your bare genitals, particularly if you have had all day to walk around and have some perspiration, will imprint your scent on the animal and that, paired with the mounting, will assure the animal of its place in the pack hierarchy and alleviate that stress.

steamingpile:How big is the dog and how big are you? The easiest way is to try the dominance method where you get near them and lie down on them until they quit trying to get up and submit. It is a dominance issue that will let a dog know who they are supposed to submit to instead of being a dick.